08/10/2014

Tehran, Sept 24, IRNA - West is not able to slow down Iran's nuclear research and development program, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Wednesday.

He made the remarks in a ceremony held to celebrate the new academic year in Iran's Supreme National Defense University.

Larijani referred to change of world order and emergence of new powers in every corner of the world, adding that power of international bodies is on the decline.

Pointing to the formation of an anti-ISIL coalition without permission of UN Security Council, he said that this move and similar moves by US and its allies in imposing sanctions on sovereign states shows that the international bodies have missed their role in resolving world crises.

ISIL's brutal attacks have displaced thousands of people in Syria and Iraq and hundreds of people have been executed by the terrorist group.

The terrorist group in its self-proclaimed state as an Islamic caliphate claims religious authority over all Muslims across the world and aspires to bring much of the Muslim-inhabited regions under its direct political control.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has admitted in her memoirs titled "Hard Choices" that the United States had a role in creation of ISIL.

GENEVA, Switzerland, October 6 – UN Watch took the floor in the recent session of the UN Human Rights Council to present a letter by 20 North Korean defectors calling on the Swiss government to freeze all of the regime’s bank accounts held in Switzerland.

The UN Watch campaign, coordinated in partnership with Free the North Korean Gulag, received important media coverage. (See right.)

Open Letter to the President of the Swiss Confederation to Freeze Assets of North Korean Leadership in Switzerland

Excellency,

We have experienced and witnessed the gross, systematic and widespread violations of human rights committed by the North Korean regime against its own people, which has been ongoing for many decades.

Because of these atrocities, and for the reasons outlined below, we appeal to you to place an immediate freeze on the financial assets located in your country, Switzerland, held by the North Korean leadership, who are directly responsible for the crimes against their own people.

We make this request based on the following:

(a) Findings of UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea

As you know, the UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korea’s human rights record found “reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, pursuant to policies established at the highest level of the State for decades.”

The UN further found that North Korea “displays many attributes of a totalitarian State: the rule of a single party, led by a single person, is based on an elaborate guiding ideology.”

Consequently, the UN has found that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un bears primary responsibility for these human rights violations. The commission of inquiry reported multiple indications of central government accountability.

(b) Switzerland endorsed creation and findings of UN Commission

Switzerland has a moral responsibility to act on the findings of the commission of inquiry because it played a leading role in its establishment and endorsement. As a member of the Human Rights Council for 2013, Switzerland actively supported the resolution that created the commission of inquiry (A/HRC/RES/22/13) and, moreover, Switzerland was a sponsor of the Council resolution (A/HRC/RES/25/25) which formally adopted the commission’s report on 28 March 2014.

Please note that Resolution 25/25 called on the General Assembly to request the Security Council to consider action to hold to account those responsible for human rights violations and crimes against humanity. The UN resolution specifically calls for consideration of “effective targeted sanctions against those who appear to be most responsible for crimes against humanity.”

Switzerland has no legal or moral reason to wait before proceeding with these vital targeted sanctions. It is incumbent upon Switzerland to match its calls for action in the Human Rights Council by taking action in its own capacity, echoing the grave concerns that have been expressed and affirmed by multiple UN bodies.

(c) Swiss law and prior precedents support case for freezing North Korean assets

Switzerland has every basis in law and prior precedent to act for the people of North Korea. We recall that, acting on these laws, Switzerland in recent years has frozen the assets of several foreign leaders, including Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya.

Switzerland did so in accordance with Swiss laws: the Embargos Act (2002), and the Act on the Restitution of Illicit Assets (RIAA/LRAI 2011). Moreover, in 2014, Switzerland adopted a new law on the issue, theFederal Act on the Freezing and Restitution of Illicitly Acquired Assets of Foreign Politically Exposed Persons, which only underscores the government’s commitment to address this important issue.

07/10/2014

Bushehr, Sept 4, IRNA – Britain and United States are founders of terrorism in Middle East region and this was the path they laid before mankind, as otherwise the Muslims are not terrorists, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said here Wednesday.

ˈThe Muslims have never been terrorists, and are not (terrorists today), and now in the 21st Century, we see that the same people who assassinated Raeis Ali Delwari, those creaturesˈ nature has not changed, and they continue their terrorist activities,ˈ said Larijani, addressing a commemoration service on martyrdom anniversary of Raeis Ali Delwari, a 19th Century Iranian anti-colonialist hero.

Delwariˈs demise anniversary was named the Day for Campaign against British Colonialism after the Islamic Revolution.

In addition to the Iraniansˈ anti-colonialist war against the British in the Persian Gulf in 19th Century, Larijani who is meanwhile a member of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) referred to the Vietnam and Cuba wars in the 20th Century, the Constitutional Revolution in Iran, which was defeated in the course of the coup against Dr. Mosaddeqˈs Government, the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, and the war imposed against Iran by the former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussain.

ˈThe big world powersˈ 20th Century record is very dark,ˈ he said referring to their support for big and small dictators here and there in the world, including in Iran, and plotting against this and that national popular government and every liberation movement around the globe.

He said that the big world powers that speak about the threat of terrorism and express concern about it today are the ones that erected the scarecrow of the lunatic ISIS in Syria and in Iraq, and then started screaming, which he said was ˈA big lie.ˈ

ˈHistory shows that the top terrorists in the world and in this region are the big powers and their grand masters in this business are the US and Britain,ˈ he said.

Larijani addressed the big world powers, saying, ˈTerrorism never bothers you as you are lying as the founders of terrorism in the region, one sample of which was assassination of Raeis Ali Delwari.ˈ

ˈYou laid the path of terrorism before the feet of the mankind, as otherwise the Muslims are neither terrorists, not have ever been terrorists, and today, too, the same creatures (big powers) have not been changed (essentially) and pursue their terrorist activities,ˈ he reiterated.

ˈThe recent regional developments are of the same kind, as they (the world powers) are opposed to the advancement of the Muslims, which is the reason why they keep initiating pretexts against the Islamic Iran with the passage of each new day,ˈ he said.

ˈThey dislike our economic growth and do not want the Iranian nation to stand on its own feet, while these pretexts are all aimed at keeping our nation busy,ˈ he said.

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